WMC News & Features
Blogging While Brown (and Female)
“People consider me the 411 on what goes wrong with black women in America,” says Gina McCauley, founder of www.whataboutourdaughters.blogspot.com.
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The Essence of It All: WNBA Rookie Lands Far from Rutgers Controversy
With a name derived from one of Americas most recognized landmarks, the New York Liberty has a rich past. One of the eight original teams to begin the WNBA in 1997, the team has retired basketball greats such as Teresa Weatherspoon and Rebecca Lobo, and has graced the WNBA finals four times. The women’s league, however, still struggles for attention.
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June 24, 2008 | Joy Harjo |
Arts and culture
Her Pueblo Round Place-A Remembrance of Paula Gunn Allen
It was the summer of 1973 when I first met Paula Gunn Allen, the teacher and poet who was destined to create on her own terms a scholarly framework for native women’s culture. I was hugely pregnant,...
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June 18, 2008 | Melissa Silverstein |
Arts and culture
Doc Film Makers Keep Women's Issues on the Agenda
The news regarding women directors of fictional films in Hollywood continues to be bleak: in 2007, only 6 percent of these films were directed by women. But the non-fiction film world is a whole dif...
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June 13, 2008 | Regina Cornwell |
International
Farm Women, an Unsung World Treasure
In the midst of a global food crisis, advocates are trying to convince the world that women farmers are an essential part of the solution. Women are responsible for over half of the world’s food pro...
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June 10, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Clinton, Paul and Couric—How Barriers Fall
In her memorable speech suspending her presidential campaign, Hillary Clinton said her campaign had shattered so many stereotypes about what women can do that “from now on, it will be unremarkable f...
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June 09, 2008 | Glenda Holste |
Media
Live From (the New) Main Street
Election year coverage that centers on citizens rather than candidates enjoyed a visible boost Sunday as “Live From Main Street Minneapolis” inaugurated a five-show series of town hall events around...
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June 09, 2008 | Maria Toro |
International
Nicaraguan Activist Embarks on Democracy Hunger Strike
A legendary Sandinista leader and political activist launched a hunger strike of indefinite duration on June 4, 2008 against the current president of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega to protest his authorit...
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June 03, 2008 | Courtney Martin |
Politics
Fanning the Flames of Youth Civic Engagement
“I am so, so, so excited,” my wildly effective 18-year-old intern Krystie Yandoli told me, sitting on my couch and leafing through a new anthology in between bites of a chocolate croissant. “At firs...
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June 02, 2008 | Melissa Silverstein |
Arts and culture
A Women's Cultural Moment
Unless you’ve been under a rock for the last week or so you know that the women from the TV show Sex and the City are back this time on the big screen. Four years after we said goodbye to Carrie, Mi...
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May 30, 2008 | Susan Loubet |
Politics
Madeleine Kunin's Sensible Guide to Electing More Women
Madeleine Kunin, former Vermont governor and ambassador to Switzerland, says she travels the country with “missionary zeal,” offering tactics to elect more women to political office. She is well awa...
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May 27, 2008 | Jennifer Pelly |
Feminism
At the Gloria Awards, Feeling the Promise of My Generation
I walk past a fancy New York hotel every day, on the way from my dorm at Fordham College at Lincoln Center to the subway at Columbus Circle. But on May 21st, I actually had the opportunity to go ins...
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May 23, 2008 | Linda Fisher |
Politics
Congress Investigates Drive-Through Mastectomies
Imagine that your left breast has just been surgically removed. You are still groggy from the anesthesia. Your neck and shoulder feel like a thousand safety pins are opening and closing with every b...
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Swanee Hunt Tells Congress That Women Are Essential to Peace Efforts
For Swanee Hunt, chair of the Hunt Alternatives Fund and former U.S. ambassador to Austria, women must be allowed to function as peacemakers in crisis spots around the world. She testified on Capito...
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May 16, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
NARAL PAC Endorses Obama, Sparking Controversy
It’s not clear what the NARAL Pro-Choice America PAC intended when it came out strong for Barack Obama, three weeks before the last primary.
At a time when there is much end-game talk and when one ...
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May 13, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Arts and culture
"A Walk to Beautiful"—The Power of Women's Stories
It’s hard enough to get U.S. audiences to watch international news, let alone news about women, let alone news about a medical tragedy that has made two million women in Africa and South Asia pariah...
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May 09, 2008 | Rebekah Spicuglia |
Feminism
On Mother's Day
Mother’s Day brunch at Jack’s Restaurant had a line out the door. I was barely 18, weeks from graduating high school, but living on my own and bussing tables to pay the rent. As my boyfriend—mi no...
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May 07, 2008 | Peggy Simpson |
Politics
Obama and Clinton: Don't Count on Disunity in the Fall
Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton made clear last night that they are on the same page when it comes to turning out their voters for the Democratic ticket in November’s general election.
Obama, cel...
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Pakistani Filmmaker Captures the Lives of Iraqi Refugee Children
Award-winning journalist Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy is touring the United States with her latest film, “The Lost Generation,” a documentary on Iraq’s refugee children produced for Great Britain’s prestig...
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Eve Ensler's Spectacular Celebrates New Orleans Women
“I’ve been trying to free myself of Katrina’s grasp... With what I’ve gone through I should be just stark raving mad by now, but I’m able to go on.” These are the words of Herreast Harrison, Upper N...
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April 21, 2008 | Ellen Bravo |
Economy
Women Don't Ask? No, Employers Don't Pay
Congratulations, working women! As of today, your salary since January 1, 2007, has finally reached the total earned by your male colleagues in 2007 alone. What’s more, this pay gap is all your faul...
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April 10, 2008 | Nichola Gutgold |
Politics
Hillary Speaks Fluent Pennsylvanian
Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are senators with Ivy League law degrees. They each have a strong, vocal spouse and can stump speech, debate and wonk their way around policy with ease. These t...
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March 31, 2008 | Alida Brill |
Politics
My Mother, Hillary, and a Banner Day
My mother’s birthday was March 4. She turned 100, becoming a centenarian. My friends stop for a moment trying to do that calculation in their heads because the arithmetic doesn’t work automatically—...
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March 31, 2008 | Avis A. Jones-DeWeever, Ph.D. |
Health
Today's Scarlet Letter
We like to believe that today, we have discarded Puritanical punishments in favor of a far more humane public sphere. Yet issues of stigma and shame remain powerful cultural forces that continue to ...
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March 27, 2008 | Paula J. Caplan |
Health
The Mystery Suspect in the U.S. "Obesity Epidemic"
If you wanted to make someone feel helpless, hopeless, even crazy, one good way to do it would be this: Teach them that others will value them mostly for being thin and being nurturant, put them in ...